- Revenue 2025
- $9,915,505
- Expenses 2025
- $2,939,695
Program services were 94.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 04
- NTEE code
- C12
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 790
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
THE ENDOWMENT'S MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY USING ITS CAPITAL, EXPERTISE, AND RESOURCES TO FUND PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT ENCOURAGE ALL SECTORS TO WORK TOGETHER TO PREVENT POLLUTION, IMPROVE WATER QUALITY, RESTORE THE CHESAPEAKE BAY, CONSERVE NATURAL RESOURCES, PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AND PUBLIC AWARENESS, AND ADDRESS EMERGING ISSUES. ALTHOUGH ACCORDED A NATIONAL SCOPE BY ITS CHARTER, THE ENDOWMENT CURRENTLY LIMITS AWARDS TO ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS AND PROJECTS CONDUCTED PRIMARILY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
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THE ENDOWMENT MADE GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS AND PROJECTS IN THREE GRANT PROGRAMS: THE VIRGINIA PROGRAM, THE JAMES RIVER WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (JRWQIP) WHICH FOCUSES ON PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT ON-THE-GROUND WATER QUALITY BENEFITS, AND THE COMMUNITY CONSERVATION PROGRAM. COMMUNITY CONSERVATION PROGRAM IS FUNDED BY $3 MILLION THAT VEE RECEIVED AS PART OF THE AGREEMENT THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA MADE WITH THE COMPANY CONSTRUCTING THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY PIPELINE TO OFFSET IMPACTS FROM THE CLEARING OF THE PIPELINE PATH IN SOUTHWEST VIRGNIA.VIRGINIA PROGRAM GRANTS WERE MADE FOR PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH THAT ALIGNED WITH THE ENDOWMENT'S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES. THE PURPOSES OF THE VIRGINIA PROGRAM GRANTS INCLUDED ADVANCING LAND CONSERVATION, PROTECTING WATER QUALITY, ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY, PROTECTING THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND SUPPORTING COASTAL RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION.THE JRWQIP GRANTS WERE MADE FOR PROJECTS THAT WILL LIKELY REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF NUTRIENT AND SEDIMENT POLLUTION FLOWING INTO THE JAMES RIVER BY MORE THAN FOUR MILLION POUNDS ANNUALLY.
Expenses $2,789,795 · Grants $2,286,799
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Dixon M ButlerDIXON M BUTLER
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Robert B Smith JrROBERT B SMITH JR
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Nina RandolphNINA RANDOLPH
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Robin D BalilesROBIN D BALILES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Lasalle D Leffall IIILASALLE D LEFFALL III
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Celia DallasCELIA DALLAS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Elizabeth Cabell JenningsELIZABETH CABELL JENNINGS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Lisa SmithLISA SMITH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Joseph H MaroonJOSEPH H MAROON
SECRETARY, EXECUTIVE DIREC
- Total calculated
- $217,635
- From this org
- $217,635
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 48
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $217,635
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $217,635
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $9,915,505
- Expenses
- $2,939,695
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $2,286,799
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2024
- Revenue
- $3,820,378
- Expenses
- $3,259,234
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $2,612,482
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,254,882
- Expenses
- $4,782,133
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $4,156,886
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,136,573
- Expenses
- $3,456,259
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $2,870,733
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,790,193
- Expenses
- $4,382,609
- Assets (EOY)
- $39,141,964
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,583,948
- Expenses
- $2,485,744
- Assets (EOY)
- $41,074,927
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $774,888
- Expenses
- $4,601,052
- Assets (EOY)
- $37,896,426
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,288,921
- Expenses
- $5,443,947
- Assets (EOY)
- $39,292,004
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $20,649,499
- Expenses
- $993,504
- Assets (EOY)
- $38,636,833
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,021,828
- Expenses
- $865,807
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,693,446
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $727,952
- Expenses
- $893,134
- Assets (EOY)
- $17,714,106
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,272,239
- Expenses
- $916,025
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,502,802
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $459,385
- Expenses
- $704,777
- Assets (EOY)
- $17,955,163
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
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$1,152,830
2022 BUFFER RESTORATION IN THE UPPER JAMES RIVER WATERSHEDPHASE 2
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$889,700
2024 RIPARIAN AND LIVING SHORELINE IMPLEMENTATION IN THE MIDDLE AND LOWER JAMES RIVER REGION.
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$554,232
2022 MAKING MANURE INJECTION THE NEW NORMAL IN THE JAMES RIVER BASIN
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$539,291
2023 A FISHABLE, SWIMMABLE, AND DRINKABLE JAMES RIVER
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$478,669
2025 IMMERSIVE OUTDOOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS WITH HOPEWELL AND PETERSBURG PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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$406,302
2024 RIPARIAN BUFFER IMPLEMENTATION IN THE UPPER JAMES RIVER REGION.
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$330,637
2025 MATTANOCK TOWN LIVING SHORELINE
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$225,554
2023 BUILDING LAND CONSERVATION AND FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT CAPACITY IN WESTERN VIRGINIA
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$196,095
2024 STREAM RESTORATION, RIPARIAN BUFFER, AND CONSERVATION PLANNING IN THE UPPER JAMES RIVER REGION.
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APPALACHIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
$192,000
2022 THE ROANOKE YOUNG WOMEN'S YOUTH CONSERVATION CREW
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Not present in the most recent drop.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.